• Avid Media Composer

  converting movs for use in AVID

  Posted by Vanessa Chia on July 14, 2008 at 5:06 am

  Hello,

  Currently I am building a toolkit and working in AE but the materials that I need to deliver has to be compatible in AVID. The toolkit that I’ve built in AE has a master composition size of 1920×1080, square pixel, 25fps and is able to export to PAL, PAL widescreen, NTSC, NTSC Widescreen and HDV 1440×1080 by applying the different render settings. So the idea is that you can make changes to your comp and render out to all these different sizes and frame rates.

  Now I’ve got to build a similar setup in AVID and was just wondering if I’ve got to provide the background .mov elements from the AE file as the proper size with the right frame rate and PAR (eg PAL 720×576, 25fps with 1.07PAR) in order to render out to to all of the options mentioned above. Or is there a similar function in AVID as the ‘Interpret Footage’ function in AE so that I don’t have to render out the .mov files in PAL, PALwidescreen, NTSC, NTSC widescreen and HDV to save space on my toolkit delivery.

  By the way, I don’t have to render audio so there’s no syncing problems. Hope this post makes sense and thanks in advance for the advice!!

  Michael Phillips replied 18 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Michael Phillips

  July 14, 2008 at 1:48 pm

  You can let Avid do the SD deliverables – between the aspect ratio selection in the down convert as well as pan & scan tools, you should be able to do all of that from the HD project. When ready for SD, transcode and deliver your NTSC, PAL, etc. Are you using a Symphony?

  Michael

  Michael Phillips
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  Vanessa Chia

  July 15, 2008 at 5:26 am

  Hey Michael,

  Thanks for your reply. It’s not really clear what version of Avid the guys who receives the toolkit will be running as its going to different countries and we don’t know the specs in their facilities.

  I suppose another question would it be is it possible for someone in Australia (for example), working on an an earlier version of Avid to take the HD size source .mov, work on it doing some video mattes and render out as PAL Widescreen? Would they have to convert down the HD footage to PAL Widescreen first before they start any work (maybe using FCP or something) Are there differences in the workflow for different versions of Avid when using the HD source clips?

  Thanks again
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  Michael Phillips

  July 17, 2008 at 1:26 pm

  If they are using any HD capable Avid system, they should have all the tools needed to deal with aspect ratio and conversions.

  Michael

  Michael Phillips

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